Edible credit card After three or four years delay I finally decided to join Françoise at a session of yoga at a school. On the way I had to go to a cash machine to collect some money to pay for this. My transaction was approved but alas the card was only partially spat out of the machine giving a tantalizing glimpse of itself without my being able to actually pull it out. It made two further...
The word 'intent' is about purpose. It was used from the early 13th century and comes from the old French entente, which means the goal, the purpose. This comes from the Latin 'intentus', which means a stretching out, leaning towards. In the sense of having the mind 'fixed upon something' the use was from about 1600 AD Let's look at the use of this word in current English " he listened intently...
Tax returns I hate filling in tax forms. Come to that I hate filling in any sort of forms . I have to revert to a pupil - teacher 'write down 100 times' mode. FULL NAME ADDRESS POST CODE DATE OF BIRTH EMAIL MOBILE NUMBERS NHS NUMBER (IF KNOWN) HEIGHT WEIGHT DRINKING HABITS and the latest nonsense MALE / FEMALE / PREFER NOT TO SAY Most of the questions are not relevant...
Getting from A to B as cheaply as possible For most of my life I have not been in a good financial situation and have had to live hand to mouth. Now circumstances have changed thank goodness but the habits of not spending money when I don't have to, have remained. This article is dedicated to all those who have to watch the pennies as we say and the principles apply to anyone traveling anywhere....
Today's return journey from London to Somerset was not the best I have ever experienced but it was certainly populated with events. Our journey sounds simple enough, get a bus than a tram and arrive at East Croydon, from thence take the 20-minute rail journey to Victoria station, walk to the coach station, await the 11am coach (M10 as it so happens) and be transported to Bristol, then take the...
Again, watching Al Jazeera early in the morning. It is difficult to see someone being interviewed who has lost 21 members of his family. Merely the illness of one of the people I regard as friends causes me disturbance never mind their death, expected or sudden. If my entire family was wiped out at one go I think I would go into a state of shock. I saw a journalist say that he had lost his...
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